* fix(rcS): reset the flight mode assignments during an airframe reset
because there are many products that have a default flight mode assignment in the airframe file and if the user resets to airframe defaults the flight mode assignment stays custom and doesn't get reset to "factory settings". It's neither a unit specific calibration nor a parameter to track total flights or flight time. I suggest to reset it as well.
* fix(posix rcS): sync airframe reset with the px4 common startup script
to make simulation testing of an airframe reset more realistic.
Note that internally higher update rates are likely also not useful but this needs to be carefully checked with the interface. It seems like the ADSB driver keeps track of what to publish when which is not a scalable/well-testable solution.
* Remove `MPC_USE_HTE` and always use hover thrust for altitude control
Note the separate module can still be not run but I have not seen a case where the hover thrust estimate is not useful for altitude control hence I don't expect anyone to have the parameter disabled or planning on not running the module.
This parameter was used to experimentally introduce the hover thrust estimator. First it was just logging its status and you could opt in to use it:
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but soon after it became the default and you had to opt out of using it:
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AFAIK we haven't seen problems requiring to disable it in the last 5 years and hence I suggest to remove the parameter to reduce the configuration space.
* Update src/modules/land_detector/MulticopterLandDetector.cpp
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* undo docs changes
* change redundant update() calls to copy()
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It was added at a time where the triplet target was directly fed as position setpoint to the controller.
Since the smoothing improvements to FlightTaskAuto(SmoothVel) and removing the previous "aggressive" FlightTaskAuto variant there should be no need anymore for this logic. It can sometimes lead to unexpected sideffects. E.g. the vehicle would suddenly change direction when exceeding some arbitrary threshold.
previous to this
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set `esc_online_flags` e.g. for UAVCAN ESCs which specific one is online and that then got compared to a mask where the first `esc_count` bits were set.
So if only ESC 5 is mapped and online you get the message "ESC 156 offline" because `esc_online_flags = 0b1000` gets compared to `online_bitmask = 0b1` based on `esc_count = 1` and the motor index is `esc[0].actuator_function = 0` wrapped using `0 - actuator_motors_s::ACTUATOR_FUNCTION_MOTOR1 + 1 = 156`.
With the goal to never take off if the GNSS solution is not fullfilling the configured requirements still not stopping to use it in case it degrades mid air.
* uavcan esc: remove unused includes
* uavcan arming_status: disarm when terminated
To stay consistent with kill.
* uavcan: publish armed during actuator tests to make it possible spinning motors
The first test makes sure the user can take over when an RTL failsafe was triggered but degraded to a Land.
The second test rules out the easiest fix of removing the condition `_selected_action == selected_action` which causes the problem for test one but is there for a reason.
Barometeric pressure was changed to the SI unit Pascal instead of the non-SI unit Hectopascal/Millibar in
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This script stayed unchanged and suffers from assuming `sensor_baro.pressure` is still in the old unit which would be a 100 times smaller number.
* failure_injection: improve previously vague motor faulure
Reading it again I decided adding the sentance in 4d2170c13e is not clear enough.
* docs/safety: add a motor failure detection paragraph
The functionality is in my eyes pretty basic but so far completely undocumented so I went through the code and added a paragraph based on questions I received.
* Subedit
* Apply suggestion from @hamishwillee
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* rc_update: remove 1% deadzone for all channels
this should be handled higher level.
* Remove all references to the RC{n}_DZ parameters
Regular expression: RC.{0,2}_DZ
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* ROMFS: do not exit airframe loading if SYS_AUTOSTART is 0
Do not treat 0 as a magic value that skips the aiframe loading.
Instead leave it tot he rc.autostart to load an airframe that if finds
appropriate (can be defined in external aiframe).
Signed-off-by: Silvan <silvan@auterion.com>
* ROMFS: adjust airframe load spacing and message/comment wording
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This was apparently added 10 years ago to store metadata of UAVCAN components within the PX4 binary. The parameters in the xml are mostly early UAVCAN ESC parameters that are presumably out of date and not used. Also it does not scale to maintain metadata for all the possible UAVCAN components and it causes confusion when users read the metadata documentation because these parameters are not available in PX4. That's why I suggest to remove it.
In an effort to reduce configuration space.
I've not seen use for this option.
If a pilot flies manually in position mode he has some visual reference of the vehicle and can do better than an autonomous mode without position reference.
Also by now we have nudging in Descend mode so the pilot can still give input and the only difference is it automatically goes down instead of the pilot having to descend by stick to land.
Matthias Grob